Miner comes to Germany

A few days before the official end of coal mining in Germany, a miner was killed.

It was the first fatal accident in the German coal mines since 2012. The incident was during the dismantling of the mine in North Rhine-Westphalia which closed two weeks ago.

On Saturday, the last coal mine in Bottrop will close. That means the official end of coal mining in Germany. In the country, lignite is still being won. The decommissioning of coal mining will take about a year.